Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.
Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.
Has forwarded CD’s request for wheat specimens to Mr Galkine-Wrasky, Governor of Saratoff in Russia. Asks CD to send his thanks to the Governor and to allow GMA to visit Down to explain the specimens when they arrive.
CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.
Praise for Descent with slight criticism of CD’s opinion that racial divergence occurred after the continents were settled.
Acknowledges safe return of Chauncey Wright’s letters. Has no objection to JBT’s publishing extracts from CD’s letters to Wright. [See 11338.]
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